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n. (plural of candlenut English)
Usage examples of "candlenuts".
The native men were employed as occasion demanded, and during the early months of the settlement it was they who did the fishing for the community and searched for the wild products of the island -- plantains, taro, candlenuts for lighting purposes, and the like.
In the light of a taper of candlenuts, smoking and sputtering by the wall, she loaded the two muskets, measuring the powder with great care, wadding it with bits of tapa, and ramming the bullets home with patches of the same material, greased with lard.
The last of the candlenuts burned down to a red glow and winked out, leaving the room in darkness, save for the faint starlight that found its way through the window.
The candlenuts were alight in the house of Mills, but the windows and doors were barred.
The sheer usefulness of candlenuts to humans seemed like an argument from design for a God-made world, customized to smart primates.